Central data management platform, dailypoint™ today announced a new, patent-pending technology to add to its product suite: a data cleansing service that allows hotels to automatically clean, correct, and de-duplicate their guest profiles and push that data back to the hotel's PMS.

After a busy year of strategic technology acquisitions in the hospitality industry and the opening of multiple offices across the world, Shiji Group launched a brand new website www.shijigroup.com to present its offerings and the company's vision to the global audience.

Availpro, a leading & highly acknowledged hotel technology provider, and Fastbooking, an expert in digital marketing solutions, are joining forces to create a new brand and a new value proposition for the hospitality industry. With a portfolio of more than 20 solutions, a customer base of 11,000 hotels, and a large local presence in more than 100 countries in Europe and Asia Pacific, D-EDGE is the Europe's No1 Hotel Distribution Technology provider and the World's No3.

Let's face it hotel technology isn't a supporting player in the guest experience anymore. It is an essential part of every guest journey, an integral aspect of each step of the guest's experience of a property—before, during, and after the stay. As such, it can make or break those guest reviews and has long-term effects on loyalty. It seems most hotels know this because over half (54%) plan to increase their technology spending this year, according to the 2019 Lodging Technology Study. There's a lot getting in the way of bringing technology to the forefront of the experience, though. In the same report, hotels said their tech strategies are held back by outdated architecture (35%), the effort required for systems integrations (35%), and guests that want more technology than properties can deliver (18%), among other things.

Atlanta, Continuing a series of strategic acquisitions Shiji has announced they have successfully completed the acquisition of global media content management and distribution platform ICE Portal.

What happens when two of hospitality's top-rated technologies align? It raises the bar on service delivery and sets new industry standards for guest engagement. Today, the world leading developer of cloud-based digital guest service solutions for hotels, Crave Interactive, and housekeeping/engineering management software provider, Quore, are announcing an integration partnership that is taking guest engagement and service request optimization to new heights. In addition to using Crave's award-winning in-room tablets to view property information, order food and beverage, access entertainment, and control room electronics, guests can now make housekeeping and engineering requests via the digital devices. Requests are then routed in real time to Quore, improving response times and ensuring more efficient service delivery. Crave Guestroom Tablets and Quore Housekeeping Software were both named "2019 Top-Rated Technologies" by HotelTechReport last month - each for a second consecutive year.

Working with Shiji Group Professional Services teams, Marriott International successfully completed a full system migration of 167 former Starwood hotels in China in late December 2018.

ALICE is the winning-est hotel technology at this year's HotelTechAwards. Recognized in six awards categories, ALICE proves once again why it's the industry leader in hospitality operations software. Over two thousand hotels around the world have chosen ALICE to streamline operations and communication with a single platform.

Technology has changed guest expectations, making it more difficult than ever for hotels to understand how to best cater to their guests. apaleo has launched a pick your adventure style game designed to help hotels understand which guest segment they want to go after and how to best cater to them.